Watch the US Drop 2.5 Million Tons of Bombs on Laos
▻http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/03/laos-vietnam-war-us-bombing-uxo
▻http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4UM2eYLbzXg
More than 100 Laotians fall victim to unexploded cluster bombs annually, delayed casualties of Operation Barrel Roll and Operation Steel Tiger, which dropped 270 million cluster bomblets. Packed by the dozens or hundreds in canisters, cluster bombs are designed to open in midair, scattering small explosives across a wide radius. Yet not all of them detonated, and today, 80 million live bomblets lurk under Laos’ soil.
Cleaning up the unexploded ordnance (UXO) has been agonizingly slow. In January, Congress approved $12 million for UXO clearance and related aid in Laos. In comparison, the bombing cost the United States $17 million a day in inflation-adjusted dollars.
